Stag Hunt in a Landscape

c. 1545/1555

Master H.W.G.

Associated Names
Master H.W.G.

Artist, German, active first half 16th century

Virgil Solis

Artist After, German, 1514 - 1562

The image displays an engraving of a hunting scene from a slightly elevated viewpoint. A castle on a hill, trees, hunters on horseback, and buildings in the distance can be seen. The style is monochromatic with detailed linework and hatching to create contrast and texture.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    block: 9.6 × 21.7 cm (3 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 9.8 × 21.9 cm (3 7/8 × 8 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1953.6.84

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein 527, State only

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1858

  • Nagler, G.K. Die Monogrammisten und diejenigen bekannten und unbekannten Künstler aller Schulen .... 5 vols. Munich: G. Franz, 1858-1879. Reprint. Munich: G. Hirth's Verlag, 1919, vol. III, no. 1722.3 (as Monogrammist HWG).

1949

  • Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. Vol. LXIV (Virgil Solis, Dieter Beaujean, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 2004, 527, state only.

Inscriptions

lower left, in block: .HWG.; bottom right below bushes, in block: VS [entwined as artist's monogram];

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65362439

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